Last Friday, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it will begin to test local ads with mobile-like ad-targeting for its Fiber TV service in Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO. Customers not willing to have their television viewing habits tracked will have to opt out; here are...

Search giant Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG) recently announced trial of a new local advertising service for Google Fiber. This service will enable TV ads to behave more like ads on the Internet. Mike Prospero, reviews editor of Laptop Mag and Tom's Guide, was on CNBC Monday to...

Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is one of the world’s leading companies when it comes to technological innovation. With Google’s quarterly earnings release, today is a good time to take a look at what the company has been up to over the past three months. Here’s a list...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just made itself both a leader and a “good guy” in the ongoing debate over net neutrality, including fast lanes and the practice of charging for peering.
In a blog post Wednesday the company said it did not charge a fee for either one on its Google Fiber networks.
In the...

U.S. stocks finished the day near session lows as investors found little reason to be bullish. Housing data came in poor and failed to rally the bulls.
Several Fed members raised the idea of a rate hike but “participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6.5 percent, it would...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is obsessed with speed. So said Google chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, during the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference as reported by USA Today. Part of that “speed obsession” is currently being manifested in somewhat feverish attempts to develop and...

Sony's (NYSE: SNE) mysterious TV service could launch sooner than later if the company's new deal with Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) comes to fruition.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Sony has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom for its unconfirmed pay-TV series.
Unlike Netflix (NASDAQ:...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) went to the dollar store this week.
however, instead of buying cheap knickknacks from Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR), Google went shopping for a municipal fiber-optic system in Provo, Utah, that cost $39 million to build.
According to the Associated Press, the deal is "widely...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been on quite a run as of late, gaining over 20 percent during the last three months, which looks even more impressive when compared to the 20 percent decline its chief rival Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) demonstrated over the same period.
A number of analysts increased price...